Tag: National Museum Cardiff
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Alia Farid: ‘The vessel shapes speak of the different cultural and trade networks in the Arabian and Gulf peninsula’
The industrialisation of water infrastructure and its damaging environmental impacts underpin Alia Farid’s work. At the opening of Artes Mundi 10, she talks about hervast sculptures in the shape of water vessels that speak of different trades, cultures and eras
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Rushdi Anwar: ‘My work is a reflection on the hypocrisy of politics and politicians’
At the opening of Artes Mundi 10, Anwar, a Kurdish-born artist who now divides his time between Thailand and Australia, discusses his work’s articulation of the violence and degradation brought about by divisive ideologies and colonialism
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Prabhakar Pachpute – interview: ‘I juxtapose memories and what is happening in real life’
Prabhakar Pachpute talks about growing up in a coal-mining region in India, and how its associated landscape and characters have become his subject matter
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Bernd and Hilla Becher: Industrial Visions
The Bechers’ austere photographs documenting industrial architecture across Britain, Europe and North America in the second half of the last century are a stark reminder of a lost world of labour
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John Akomfrah – interview: ‘The question of discourse is absolutely central’
The artist explains the inspirations for his new split-screen film, Auto da Fé, and talks about the importance of the Black Audio Film Collective, of which he was a founding member
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